A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That’s all you need.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.